I've been experimenting with Changedetection.com to scan for my desired city pair being mentioned "MSY". It works but gets tripped up sometimes, notably if my username is mentioned because it has MSY in it.

The answer would depend on what capabilities changedetection.org provides; I can't seem to find the site to find out. But I found changedetect.com, which offers all of "regular expressions", "ignore tags", and "keep tags"; That should give you the features you need.

I use yahoo pipes to watch this forum for WAS sales. You can filter the RSS feed by keywords on the title. And also blend multiple feeds into one

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Originally Posted by TravelerMSY

Please explain.

I pipe the MR RSS feed through a Yahoo Pipe to filter for my desired cities and airlines and incorporate the result in my home page portal. Yahoo Pipes is basically a high-level programming tool, however, so it's not necessarily easy to use for non-programmers.

You can view that pipe and edit it if you have a yahoo account. You probably need to clone the pipe, then edit or view source and in a GUI you can edit how its setup. Then you could bookmark the pipe, or pull it into an rss reader via the Get as RSS link when you run the pipe.

A better question is how to use Yahoo Pipes to gather information from other sites to post here.

I'm still at the shallow end of Yahoo Pipes, so is it possible to use some data source other than an RSS feed for a pipe? It would be cool if you could develop a pipe from a kayak or google flights search.

I'm still at the shallow end of Yahoo Pipes, so is it possible to use some data source other than an RSS feed for a pipe? It would be cool if you could develop a pipe from a kayak or google flights search.

I think the URL is XML and not RSS so its harder to work with. One of the Hopper guys helped me get it formatted as it is. I tried to parse out the price and didn't have any luck. Ideally you would parse out the price and put in a upper limit - or even better have some other method to determine the distance and combine that with a price. (Honestly I could create an API or some sort to provide distances, or maybe we could pull it from a Google spreadsheet, I have a database of airport distances at home.) I have not spent much time on this.

I think the URL is XML and not RSS so its harder to work with. One of the Hopper guys helped me get it formatted as it is. I tried to parse out the price and didn't have any luck. Ideally you would parse out the price and put in a upper limit - or even better have some other method to determine the distance and combine that with a price. (Honestly I could create an API or some sort to provide distances, or maybe we could pull it from a Google spreadsheet, I have a database of airport distances at home.) I have not spent much time on this.

If you figure out the price please PM me and let me know.

Thanks. For the price, you can add "&max_price=500" or whatever to the URL string.

Best thing for the distances would be to read them in from the Great Circle Mapper gcmap.com.